Klarinet Archive - Posting 000133.txt from 2006/09

From: "dnleeson" <dnleeson@-----.net>
Subj: RE: [kl] Re: concerti
Date: Tue, 12 Sep 2006 19:18:17 -0400

They are all lovely pieces. You are preaching to the converted
when you speak of Grainger, Vaughn Williams, and Bennett.
Grainger's pieces are often 5 to 15 minutes. The English Folk
Song Suite is the same. The Bennett Suite of Old American Dances
is 20 minutes. The Hindemith is 35 mins. and should have been
longer. But I have not played it in years so maybe I'm imagining
its length.

Mahler 3 is an hour. The overture to somebody and Ludmilla is 10
miutes.

We are not talking the same breadth and scope. I'm not
criticizing band music, just pointing out that it has very few
good BIG pieces.

Dan Leeson
DNLeeson@-----.net

-----Original Message-----
From: Tim Roberts [mailto:timr@-----.com]
Sent: Tuesday, September 12, 2006 3:14 PM
To: klarinet@-----.org
Subject: RE: [kl] Re: concerti

On Tue, 12 Sep 2006 10:58:33 -0700, "dnleeson"
<dnleeson@-----.net>
wrote:

>Just look at the amount of music written during the 20th century
>and constrast that with how much of it we still continue to
hear.
>Hindemith's music appears to be heading south. Less and less of
>it is played every year. The only piece that gets played
>frequently is the Symphony in B-flat for band, and that is only
>because the band literature of big, symphonic pieces with heft
to
>them is still miniscule next to the orchestral literature. The
>only long term survivors of that music are Holst and John
Phillip
>Sousa. Who else do you hear regularly today?
>

Grainger, Ralph Vaughn Williams, and Robert Russell Bennett come
to
mind, although I'm not entirely sure their work falls under your
classification of "big, symphonic pieces".

--
Tim Roberts, timr@-----.com
Providenza & Boekelheide, Inc.

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